I explore some new directions—suggested by feminism—for medical ethics and for
philosophical ethics generally. Moral philosophers need to confront two issues. The first is …

"... a welcome addition to the literature."--Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences"...
ideologically diverse selection of readings..."--Times Literary Supplement (London)" The …

This book attempts to deepen common understandings of what considerations are relevant
in discussions of bioethics. It is meant to offer a clearer picture of what morally acceptable …

Carol Gilligan has delineated two ethics, the ethic of rights and the ethic of care. In this
article I argue that the two ethics are part of one overall system, the ethic of care functioning …

Feminist ethics and medical ethics are critical of contemporary moral theory in several
similar respects. There is a shared sense of frustration with, the level of abstraction and …

Work on representing women's voices in ethics has produced a vision of moral
understanding profoundly subversive of the traditional philosophical conception of moral …

The end of the last century was a particularly vibrant period for feminist bioethics. Almost two
decades on, we reflect on the legacy of the feminist critique of bioethics and investigate the …

As medical ethics has evolved over the past several decades, it has come to be regarded as
a domain of applied ethics, that is, the application of a rationally based, philosophical theory …

The primary contribution of feminism to bioethics is to note how imbalances of power in the
sex‐gender system play themselves out in medical practice and in the theory surrounding …

Ethics is a well-established part of the philosophical curriculum; several thousand courses
are given on it every year in the United States and there is a general academic consensus …